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Robots are so metal
FRC #2478 (Westwood Robotics)
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Re: 2478 presents: "The Crimson Chain" (Video)

Our tensioner was a little slow for us at Arizona so we switched out the acme rod from 5 turns per inch to 2 turns per inch. Now it takes about 3 seconds to get from top to bottom, instead of the 8ish we had before.
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